- Title: Israel demolishes family home of teenage Palestinian attacker
- Date: 28th August 2018
- Summary: KAUBER, WEST BANK (AUGUST 28, 2018) (REUTERS) POSTER OF PALESTINIAN TEENAGE ATTACKER, MOHAMMED TAREQ IBRAHAM DAR YOUSSEF, PLACED ON TOP OF RUBBLE MAN LOOKING ON MEN AND YOUTH GATHERED AT SITE AND LOOKING ON YOUTH STANDING AMID RUBBLE NEAR POSTER OF DAR YOUSSEF POSTER OF DAR YOUSSEF (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) DAR YOUSSEF'S UNCLE, KHALED ABU AYYOUSH, SAYING: "Israel does not recognise that this (the attack) had nothing to do with them (the family). (This is) a familiar and continued Israeli policy of collective punishment. It is merciless in this case and does not take into consideration that even the person who had carried out the attack was a kid under 18. His family knew nothing about it. They deprived them from their home. This is a problem. Israel does not care about international decisions (law)." RUBBLE VIEW OF DAMAGE WITH JEWISH SETTLEMENT IN THE BACKGROUND RUBBLE AND DAMAGED CONTAINER PLANT AMID RUBBLE PEOPLE GATHERED AT SCENE OF DEMOLITION
- Embargoed: 11th September 2018 10:06
- Keywords: Israel Palestinians Kaubar West Bank army demolishes family home of Palestinian attacker
- Location: KAUBER, WEST BANK
- City: KAUBER, WEST BANK
- Country: Palestinian Territories
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace
- Reuters ID: LVA0028V3PEFB
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: The Israeli military on Tuesday (August 28) demolished the family home of a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank, who killed an Israeli in a Jewish settlement a month ago and was shot dead in the attack.
Footage distributed by the military showed an armoured bulldozer tearing into the single-storey structure in the village of Kauber, north of the Palestinian city of Ramallah.
Mohammed Tareq Ibraham Dar Youssef, 17, broke into the settlement of Adam on July 26, and stabbed three people, killing Yotam Ovadia, 31. One of those wounded in the assault fatally shot the Palestinian, the military said.
Dar Youssef's uncle, Khaled Abu Ayyoush, said the youth's parents, two brothers and two sisters had lived in the house razed in the night-time operation. The family, he said, had known nothing of the teenager's intention to carry out an attack. "(This is) a familiar and continued Israeli policy of collective punishment. It is merciless," Abu Ayyoush said.
Israel's Supreme Court has upheld the demolition policy, which Israeli officials have termed both punitive and a deterrence to potential attackers.
In a statement, the military said dozens of Palestinians hurled rocks, firebombs and pipe bombs at troops deployed in the village and that they responded with "riot dispersal means". It said none of the soldiers was hurt. There were no immediate reports of any Palestinian injuries. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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